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  title info:
    title: Revolutionary Iran
    sub title: a history of the Islamic republic
  name:
    name part: Axworthy, Michael.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    copyright date: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 496 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran by the hundreds of thousands, demanding free, democratic government. Axworthy explains how that outpouring of support for an end to tyranny in Iran paused and then moved on to other areas in the region like Egypt and Libya, leaving Iran's leadership unchanged. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a defining moment of the modern era. Its success unleashed a wave of Islamist fervor across the Middle East and signaled a sharp decline in the appeal of Western ideologies in the Islamic world. Axworthy takes readers through the major periods in Iranian history over the last thirty years, including the overthrow of the old regime and the creation of the new one, the Iran-Iraq war, the reconstruction era following the war, the reformist wave led by Mohammed Khatami and the present day, in which reactionaries have re-established control. Throughout, he emphasizes that the Iranian revolution was centrally important in modern history because it provided the world with a clear model of development that was not rooted in Western ideologies. Whereas the world's major revolutions of the previous two centuries had been fuelled by Western, secular ideologies, the Iranian Revolution drew its inspiration from Islam. Revolutionary Iran is both richly textured and from one of the leading authorities on the region, combining an expansive scope with the most accessible and definitive account of this epoch in all its humanity.
  table of contents: Introduction: The Hidden Continent of Iran -- Prologue: 'Ten Days of Dawn' (Daheh- ye Fajr) -- 1 The Background: Ma Chegoneh Ma Shodim? ('How Did We Become What We Are?') -- 2 The 1970 s and the Slide to Revolution -- 3 Like the Person He Ought to Be: Islamic Republic, 1979 -- 80 -- 4 Jang- e Tahmili: The War: 1980 -- 88 -- 5 The End of the War, the Death of the Emam, and Reconstruction: Khamenei and Rafsanjani, 1988 -- 97 -- 6 Bim- e Mowj (Fear of the Wave): Khatami and Reform, 1997 -- 2005 -- 7 Everything Must Change, So That Everything Can Stay the Same: Ahmadinejad and Khamenei, 2005 -- 12 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.
  note: Michael Axworthy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ir---
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: History
    temporal: Pahlavi dynasty, 1925-1979
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1979
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: History
    temporal: 1979-1997
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: History
    temporal: 1997-
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1941-1979
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1979-1997
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1997-
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: General
  classification: DS318 .A88 2013
  classification: 955.05/4
  identifier: 9780199322268 (hardback)
  identifier: 0199322260 (hardback)
  identifier: 2013015836
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130510
    record change date: 20151206084808.0
    record identifier: in00003423051